Gallery 2 will be hosting their third “Living Book” on April 18 at 7pm. If you are interested in Boundary history you should come out and listen to local resident Bill Durham who will be sharing stories of the Phoenix Mine as it was when he worked there through the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s. Bill will be sharing a video taken of a renuion of workers at the mine. Come see if someone you know is the reunion. We would like to extend this invitation to come listen to Bill’s stories. This is our 3rd Thursday of the month and we are open from 10am to 8pm with light refreshments provided throughout the day.

The 70’s exhibit is just around the corner it opens on April 22, it’s going to be a great time along with Arts & Culture Week which is from April 22nd – May 4th.
Please stop by, have a visit, tour our marvelous building and enjoy some refreshments.
For more information call the gallery at 250-442-2211

During Arts and Culture Week, gallery 2 joins forces with the Boundary District Arts Council to present the visual arts. Numerous volunteers working for months in advance deliver exhibits and demonstrations that welcomes the participation of our elementary school children as well as an opportunity for adults to view exemplary original works of art. Each year, at the Centennial Auditorium, the performing arts are celebrated at a Gala presented by the Boundary District Arts Council. The Gala features music, voice, dance, and theatre from our Member Groups and the funds raised from the Gala are directed to the maintenance of the community’s grand piano.

If you are interested in particpating, please download the form or pick one up at the Reception desk.

gallery 2 is inviting all Boundary Artisans and beyond to come share their wares at the 6th Annual Juried Boundary Christmas Artisan Faire.
The gallery 2 building will be decked in Christmas decor creating a wonderful backdrop for displaying your craft. The central location makes it easy for shoppers to find.

Let us take you back to the Christmases of the past and join us on November 29 & 30. Be awed by the beautiful assortment of artwork and crafts shared by our Boundary artisans and beyond. There will surely be something unique for you to purchase to inspire that special person in your life. Both floors will be filled with beautiful crafts, soft Christmas music and a place to sit and have something to eat. Bring your friends. We are open late Friday evening until 7 pm and Saturday until 4 pm.

Gallery 2 will be participating in this self-directed and free of charge tour, the culture tour is a great opportunity to meet people behind the scenes at galleries and museums, visit studios not normally open, shop for original art or fine crafts and experience special events planned only for this weekend. Before you hit the road, check out the profiles to see the special events that are happening at each location!

Sorry we no longer have any spaces left for the Boundary Artisan Faire.

The 8th Annual Boundary Artisan Christmas Faire will be held November 28 & 29, 2014. Its such great place to share your wares, the 100 year old building is a perfect setting, with the festive, inviting Christmas décor. The building buzzes with action with an outreach of 800 people through last year. So if you’re interested you have until October 24th to register.

To register for a space please click the link below to download your copy.

Art Battle Canada visits Grand Forks for the first time on May 9, 2015 at 7pm at gallery 2. Join us for an exciting night of live competitive painting.12 local artists will go head-to-head for the chance to win the title of Art Battle Champion, cash prize and a spot at the Regional Finals in June 2015.

Tickets are on sale at www.artbattle.ca

If you are interested in participating as an artist there is an online application at www.artbattle.ca/register.

Gallery 2 will be hosting Rembrandt’s Attic V, one of the galleries most rewarding fundraisers. This event takes place every five years and is a great way to own an original piece of art donated by some of the artists we have exhibited in the past five years and beyond. Christina Lake, Richard & Beverley Reid, Grand Forks, Steve Howard, Edmonton, AB, Amy Loewan and Lisa Rezansoff, just to name a few.
You purchase a ticket and your ticket is drawn at random the evening of the event.

Join us for the 24th Annual Wine Tasting we will take you down a snowy lane to the warmth of an old-fashioned Christmas setting. You don’t want to miss this amazing event and tickets sell out fast. So please make sure you come in and purchase them as soon as possible. Its the social event of the Boundary and you don’t want to miss out!

There’s no show like it anywhere in BC. It’s an intimate part of Boundary culture. On Friday December 4th and Saturday December 5 artisans converge at gallery 2 in the historic courthouse for the 9th Annual Artisan Christmas Faire. Surrounded by stained glass, wood, and the arts, these artisans will bring their best work from the last 12 months, to give you a chance to browse their merchandise, and shop for your holiday gift giving.

You’ll discover beautiful, handmade artisan crafts, while listening to the melodious songs from the harp, played skillfully by Jenn Fenn. Or have a seat in the bistro, right in the gallery, and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, Christmas baking, or even have your lunch.

When you visit gallery 2 on December 4th and 5th, you’ll find the artists on both floors – this year’s show will be full to capacity. The holiday joy and comfort is brimming over, ready for you to enjoy on the first weekend in December. The selection will be great with PotterBees’ Sandy-Jo Lewis, jewellery and stained glass, by Tracey Jory, and Alex Semenoff’s distinctive wood turnings. New to the show will be Lana Halisheff with her handmade, natural skincare products, John and Leda Fair of Midway with crafted handmade bird houses and canes, Fran Etson with her fabric creations and quilts. Jill Gunnarson, Paper Garden and Kathryn Hankey are back from previous shows and more…

This year you just might leave the gallery with more artwork than you planned. An exciting new feature will have you coming back for more. When you make a purchase from one of the artisans or from the gallery gift shop, you’ll receive a draw ticket. Put one part of the ticket in the draw for the hour, and you enter for a chance to win the door prize – your pick of any of the artisan crafts offered for the draw. You’ll have a chance to win every hour, so be sure and stick around and enjoy the show and come back on Saturday. You could take home a special piece of Boundary culture, for free.

We still have a couple of spots left if anyone is interested in setting up a booth. Please download the registration form, fill it out, bring it in or drop it by the gallery. Payment is required upon registering.

Gallery 2 is excited to be presenting the first two exhibitions of 2016. Local(i)ty 2, curated by Carin Covin, presents the work of artists Nora Curiston, Laura Widmer and Brenda Feist in the Reid and West Galleries. This ambitious exhibition includes work in diverse media from all three artists that explore connection to place, with particular emphasis on artists working in smaller urban centres, as Carin Covin explains: “The title Local(i)ty 2 refers to the location that these artists work from, here in Grand Forks and in Kelowna. In a smaller centre, do we see a difference in the integrity of what art can be seen as today, how it is produced and how it can be given an audience…” Curiston continues her working methodology of pairing the physical and the intangible, with a particular emphasis on the use of wind. Feist investigates the use of metaphor and social mapping of the individual through physical work that includes the use of blackboards and theatre-style sets. Widmer, a printmaker, has begun to make her own paper that she incorporates into her practice in processes that becomes her metaphor for the search for the ultimate meaning of life

Shunga (Pictures of Spring), an exhibition of work by noted Japanese Canadian artist Noboru Sawai, will be in the east gallery. Sawai has devoted his printmaking practice to making sensuous, erotic art since the 1970s. As with his printmaking techniques, Sawai draws his imagery from diverse sources including the Kama Sutra, traditional Japanese woodblock print styles and the often erotic imagery of The Pillow Book, as well as images from Inuit legends. Be sure to come and witness the amazing work of Noboru Sawai.

Gallery 2 is pleased to be presenting a new travelling heritage exhibit from The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC), A Call for Justice – Fighting for Japanese Canadian Redress (1977-1988) inspired by the 25th Anniversary of the signing of the Redress agreement. Please keep watch for this exhibit, which will be open from March-June
Join us for the first Opening Reception of the year on Saturday, February 6, 2016 from 1-3pm for Local(i)ty 2 and Shunga.

The 17th BC Arts & Culture Week April 15-30, 2016. Spring is here and so is the BC Arts & Culture Week sponsored by the Boundary District Arts Council and gallery 2. We are proud to host the 17th consecutive Arts Week as it is one of the most elaborate display of arts and crafts in the Boundary. The history of this event goes back to June 1979 called ‘Spring Thing’ when the Grand Forks Arts Society had a display in conjunction with Canada Week. In March 1981 it continued in Perley School as the ‘Spring Arts Festival’ along with an evening concert. In May ‘84 ‘Spring Thing’ was expanded and held in the Boundary Mall with over 200 displays. This encouraged the Society to hold Spring Thing events in the Art Gallery in 1985, 1986 and 1987 but due to a lack of a coordinator and funding the last one was held in 1991.

In 1999 the Assembly of BC Arts Councils announced they would help fund local Arts Councils if they participated in an Arts Week during their specified time, the last week in April. The Grand Forks Arts Council with the help from the Grand Forks Art Gallery revived the event and have continued annually with changes in names and buildings.

We are inviting all art and crafts people to enter their exhibits. Application forms are available at gallery 2. A Gala Performance of BDAC musicians and dancers was held on Thursday, April 21st in the Grand Forks Secondary School auditorium.
Reception and entertainment for all from 1 to 3pm on Saturday, April 23rd at gallery 2.
We are inviting everyone to participate, enjoy and celebrate the ‘ARTS’ in Learning and in Life.

For more information phone Susan Hals at 250 442 2942 or Wendy Butterfield at 250 442 2211 or email admin@g2gf.ca

We are excited to have the “Grand Forks Quilt Connection” showcase their amazing fabric art. “Tiptoe Through Nature” promises to be a refreshing, inspiring exhibition, with the colors of summer, stitched to perfection.

“All these are the inspirations for the fiber art works in this show. The challenge begins with drawing and designing the piece. Then, detailed planning or to work intuitively? Realistic, representational or abstract, and to what degree?” Quilters: Stephanie Alcock, Diana Bartelings, Emilie Belak, Laura Jean Cuthbert, Arielle Gerencser, Helen Hatch, Susan Meanley, Anne Rayner-Gould, Karen Thatcher, Florence Vatkin, Sheila Vockeroth

Gallery 2 – May 14 – August 13, 2016 – Tsuneko Kokubo comes to us from the New Denver area and her exhibit entitled “Regeneration” is refreshing and inspirational. Her artwork reflects her life and the things she values.

“In this new work for the Regeneration show, I am combining impressions, abstractions and narrative elements related to early Japanese immigration, family memories, and the internment of Nikkei (Japanese Canadians) in the Slocan Valley – all the while striving for beauty in expected places.”

The Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (NNMCC), A Call for Justice – Fighting for Japanese Canadian Redress (1977-1988) inspired by the 25th Anniversary of the signing of the Redress agreement. This exhibition will be on display until June 11th. This is a very important show for the Boundary and surrounding areas. Please take the time to stop by and have a look this is part of our heritage and contains a very powerful story.

The Opening Reception is Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 1-3pm. Please stop by and meet the artists and enjoy some refreshments.

We have a special anniversary, the 25th, join us for this nostalgic event, “25 years of memories”. Please join us on the evening of November 26th from 8-10:30pm.
This is our largest annual fundraiser and assists the gallery with programming & exhibitions. Please show your support and pick up you tickets at the Gallery 2 Gift Shop.

Please join us for our 10th Annual Artisan Christmas Faire. The building will be decked in holiday fashion from top to bottom and there will be more than 20 vendors who are excited to show their crafts which they’ve been working on over the past year. Come for lunch the gallery 2 staff and board will be baking and cooking. Come have a delicious bowl of soup for lunch.

Gallery 2 is excited to present the first exhibitions of 2017 featuring two well-known artists Debra Rushfeldt from Nakusp, BC and Saskatchewan born Jason Baerg
Rushfeldt drawings are richly detailed taking “ordinary objects, that which allows us to move outside the ordinary.” Her work is deeply personal she says “The subject matter of these works belongs to my personal world, to my emotional bond with my environment, and to my awareness of the significance of my “ground” not only as physical, but as idea and emotion.” Rushfeldt will be here for the closing of her exhibition and will be giving an artist talk on April 8th, please keep watch for details.
Baerg is an indigenous curator, educator and visual artist. “Creatively, as a visual artist, he pushes new boundaries in digital interventions in drawing, painting and new media installation…” This exhibition entitled “Ohcistikosiwak” which means “The Spruce Tree Provides Shelter from Rain”, is part of a series called “Oskayi Askiy which means the new world in Cree…” This project is translated through, “…The sky, Animals and Land are processed through technology and are translated as flesh, fauna and playful apparatus. As working methodology, this space acts as an exploratory arena to consider solutions to the social and environmental calamities at hand…”Curator Ted Fogg has chosen several pieces from the Permanent Collection and says “This small exhibition of selected works from our Permanent Collection is not based only on curatorial criteria. They are works that first and foremost made me pause and stop to look and question; that impacted me viscerally. Works by artists that have enriched my life experience whether by their complexity, subject matter, technical mastery, or other influences….“Please join us for the first Opening Reception of the year on Saturday, February 4, 2017 from 1-3pm

Exhibiting artist Debra Rushfeldt will be here at the gallery Saturday, April 8th at 1pm and will be giving an artist talk. This amazing artist has an exhibition entitled “Grounded” in the East Gallery and it is well worth seeing her work. Please tell your friends and family and come enjoy an inspirational talk.

She will be here on “Slow Art Day” its a national event where art lovers visit their local galleries and take some time to really look deeply into the art and find meaning for themselves and understand the artists passion. Drop by the gallery on that day whether to come and listen to Debra or just drop by and have a look at the exhibitions.

If you are interested in showcasing your artwork for a couple of weeks in a professional gallery. Please fill out the form provided with this link. Make sure to have your artwork in by the April 15th. See full details on Registration Form

If you are interested in showcasing your artwork for a couple of weeks in a professional gallery. Please fill out the form provided with this link. Make sure to have your artwork in by the April 15th. See full details on Registration Form

If you are interested in showcasing your artwork for a couple of weeks in a professional gallery. Please fill out the form provided with this link. Make sure to have your artwork in by the April 15th. See full details on Registration Form

If you are interested in showcasing your artwork for a couple of weeks in a professional gallery. Please fill out the form provided with this link. Make sure to have your artwork in by the April 15th. See full details on Registration Form